Monday 29 July 2013

The content in peephole --- The Wizard of Oz



Storyline
This film created in 1939, which based on the popular L. Frank Baum stories, The wonderful Wizard of Oz. Dorothy and her dog Toto are swept away to a magical land in a tornado. Here she meets some friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard of Oz who everyone says can help her return home and possibly grant her new friends their goals of a brain, heart and courage.








Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing or adumbrating is a literary device in which an author hints certain plot developments that perhaps will come to be later in the story. It is used to arouse the reader, viewer or listener about how the story will proceed and mentally prepare them for how it will unfold.  (from Wikipedia)

In The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy and toto swept away to tornado, Dorothy said: “ Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” which means they are going to different world. So in the window, I have chosen this quote to print on board as foreshadowing to hit readers, the purpose is attracting people attention. when they see this quote, maybe will confuse why want to use this sentence, then people will to see peephole to look what it is. meanwhile, it give a foreshadowing/ message to hint people will enter into a fantasy and imagined world, when they go into Bookstore.

In peepholes, I chosen three different scenes from The Wizard of Oz. First scene is the yellow brick road and forest. this part expressed a message is “you are ready on your way, you are goning to the world of book, a imagined world.” 





And second scene is characters, when Dorothy follow the yellow brick road to go to emerald city to find a way to go back home, she meets new friends, no brain Scarecrow, no heart Tin woodman and cowardly Lion in her journal. They are going to emerald city together to meet wizard to achieve their dreams. To this one, The message is told people, sometimes, we awlays try to find or hope get somethings in our life, when we go into bookstore, maybe we can find answer in various books when we read them. 






Last scene is emerald city. In The Wizard of Oz story, emerald city is distination, Dorothy and her friends can get what they want from wizard in there. so I can said, Waterstones is distination and book is wizard, people can get what they want from books when they read.


  

                                                    Poppy field scene from "The Wizard of Oz."


Therefore, I replace city with Waterstones building in Nottingham, to tell passer-by in Waterstones, there provide best and various books, people can get what they want from books in this bookstore.










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